KANSAS UNIVERSITY WEEKLY.
VOL. Ix.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, NOVEMBER 3, 1900.
NO. 9.
THAT DAKOTAGAME
KANSAS PLAYED IN OLD TIME FORM—ODLE AND WILCOX PLAYED A STAR GAME.
The Boys Royally Entertained and Made Social Heroes Too.
After leaving Lawrence on Thursday morning the foot ball boys spent only a half hour in Kansas City, and then immediately took the train north. Sioux City was reached at 10:30 p.m. and the team went to a hotel and waited until morning before going to Vermilion, which is only some thirty miles distant. They reached the latter place at about 10 o'clock the next morning.
The boys took a good run before dinner, and after eating slept for two hours. This put them in pretty good shape and they felt the fatigue of their really long trip but little.
Vermillion is a town of only about 2500. The college buildings are pretty comfortable structures but only three in number. The boys and girls have dormitories. The foot ball field lies east and west and in between the main building and the girls dormitory.
A crowd of nearly a thousand was out to see the game, and fully half of them were girls. When our boys appeared on the field they were greeted by a flutter of vermillion ribbon and some Dakota college yells. The yelling throughout the game was nearly all done by the girls. They were along the south side of the field, and so enthusiastic that they broke down the rope and crowded upon the field even worse than K. U. boys do.
The girls cheered for Dakota up to the last touch-down, but after the game their affection was lavished on the Kansas boys. They gave them their ribbons and both teams were invited to the girls' parlors to spend the evening. When Kansas first appeared on the field the girls had greeted them with this yell:
"Well, well, well,
Aren't we swell?
We'll show Kansas,
Well, well, well."
"Well, well, well,
After the game the thing changed and the Kansas fellows yelled this :
Aren't we swell?
Kansas got forty-two
Dakota got --, well, well, well,
The reception in the evening was a very pleasant affair. The boys say the Dakota girls know more about foot ball than any one in Kansas. They talked of interference, offense, defense, and other technical terms until one's head would swim. Wilcox says that the parlor chair built for one isn't in it with the Dakota settee built for three. Morton didn't meet his affinity until just fifteen minutes before time to leave, but he became the lion of the evening in those few minutes. Algie got so interested in a pair of blue eyes that he didn't know when the other fellows left, as he got to the hotel a good half hour late. In short, the boys are still raving about the hospitable Dakota people and the girls.
The game itself was a much hardly contested affair than the score indicates. The Dakota team was big and well trained. Kansas won simply by its splendid team work Every one says they haven't played together